The Civil Rights Movement
1. Why did and did not Eisenhower promote civil rights during his presidency?
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Soviet Propaganda
Doubts
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State and Local Action
Effectiveness of National Laws
2. What were conditions like for minorities, especially in the south, after WWII?
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Schools
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Voting
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Segregation
Plessey v. Ferguson
Black Codes or Jim Crow Laws
Housing
Jobs
3. What was the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, and what impact did it have on
American Schools?
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NAACP
Eisenhower’s Response
Chief Justice Earl Warren
Sociological and Psychological Findings
With all deliberate speed
Massive Resistance
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KKK
Southern Manifesto
4. What was the Montgomery Bus Boycott and how did it help spark the civil rights movement?
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Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King Jr.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Violent Reaction
Non-Violent Disobedience
Supreme Court Intervenes
5. How was the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School a significant victory for the
civil rights movement?
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Orval Faubus and National Guard
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Little Rock Nine
Eisenhower and Federal Troops
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Closing of Central high School
Deep South Resisted desegregation
6. How did Sit-Ins and Freedom Riders promote civil rights in the Deep South?
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The Greensboro Four
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Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
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Woolworths
Sit-In
Role of Young Activists
Gained Momentum and Woolworths Reaction
Violent Counter Reaction
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
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James Farmer
Freedom Riders
Fire Bombed Bus, Beatings and Arrests
Kennedy Response
Bobby Kennedy and the Federal Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Demonstrated young African Americans desire for freedom and equality
7. How did Martin Luther King Jr. become the leader of the Civil Rights Movement?
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James Meredith and University of Mississippi
George Wallace and University of Alabama
Letter From Birmingham city Jail
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Southern Violent Resistance
Non-Violent Response
Nobel Peace Price
March on Washington DC
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I Have a Dream Speech
9. Birmingham Church Bombing
10. James Earl Ray in 1968
8. What was the Freedom Summer and how did it change the nations notions of racism and
injustice in the south?
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Voting Rights in Mississippi
Freedom Summer
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Robert Moses
White College Kids
Freedom Schools
Voter Registration
10. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner
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Local officials and KKK involvement
Mr. X
Search for Bodies
How they died
11. Impact of Killings on Americans View of Civil Rights
8. Televisions Role on American Conscious
9. Civil Rights Act (Passed Before)
10. Voting Rights Act (Passed After)